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February 6, 2019

Layer-Cake Quilts and Giveaway

Last night I read that our bodies crave different colors at different times ("Light Emerging - The Journey of Personal Healing" by Barbara Ann Brennan). Since I began quilting, it seems my body just plain craves colors in all its fiber varieties: bright or subdued, busy or calm, old fashioned or super modern. Against any background, as long as the colors dance before my eyes, my body dances, too, and my spirit soars regardless of what may be happening around me.

Add a little bit of yardage and you have all you need for beautiful, colorful quilts requiring the skills of advanced beginners and one weekend. "Daybreak", above, is the last quilt in the book but the first one I saw as I peruse books beginning at the back cover... What a happy quilt and ideal to display those prints we do not want to cut into tiny pieces.

The Layer Cakes provide enough of each fabric in a collection to ensure our quilts have a great mix of textures, values, and print scales. Barbara Groves and Mary Jacobson expertly use this variety in their designs teaching us how we can achieve the same wonderful results as we use our own stash of fabrics, pre-cut or not.

I like that Barbara and Mary suggest how we can use leftover triangles in other projects, and the many other tips we get throughout the book. You see, sometimes one little tip can make all the difference in our quilt-making journey so I always make sure I read them all. I feel as if they were granting us a personal interview ("How did they know I was wondering about that?" is what I ask myself often as I read those tidbits).

"Around the Block", above, is such a fun design with a fantastic explosion of color. Just make sure there is a lot of contrast between the prints you choose and the background, and your quilt will be a gem!

I also noticed that almost all the projects show cool textured fabrics on the binding. You can tell Barbara and Mary have a lot of fun designing the projects for their books, putting a lot of thought into every aspect of the process. All the hard work is done so we, quilters, can just cut, sew, and snuggle.

Snuggling is what I feel like doing because we have wind and snow raging outside to make life interesting today. All the more reason to go through Easy Layer-Cake Quilts 2, choose one of the projects, and focus on colors!

[Giveaway Closed]
How about a giveaway today? Leave a comment to let me know which one you purchase more often - yardage or precuts. On Monday morning I will announce the winner of a copy of Easy Layer-Cake Quilts 2 (hardcopy within the US, eVersion for international locations), courtesy of Martingale.

Don't forget to mention your email address (but use this format: "soandsoatinternet.com" [in other words, do not use the @ symbol opting instead for the 'at' word] so you do not get spammed!) as I will need a way to contact you.

Precuts, I like that you get a large variety of the whole line. I then but yardage for background, sashing, binding and the backing. It works great for me since I’m horrible at matching but with precuts I appear to be a fabric matching genius. 😊 Thanks for the generous giveaway, Toni Anne

I often buy yardage, but when I buy pre-cuts my favorite is a layer cake. I like that they can be turned into lots of different things and they don't cost as much as a FQ bundle. jklmengland at windstream dot net

I purchase more fabric than precuts. I do love those precuts and use them often when quilting. Thank you for the chance to become a winner of that Layer Cake Book. Lots of great quilt patterns. Great eye candy!

I suppose I buy more precuts as I tend to be a scrap quilter, and I just love having patterns to use them with. Looks like a great book for any quitters library! Thanks for sharing the chance at the giveaway too!

I typically purchase yardage, but if I purchase precuts they are always fat quarters. Don't much care for the pinked edges on the smaller cuts and I don't mind cutting my own smaller pieces. amityquilter 2008 at gmail dot com

Great on buying both, but tend for yardage cuz I never know what I will do with a fabric I love. Daybreak is my fav to show of some of the "loved fabrics" Around the block makes me smile with all the colors.

I buy yardage. I do like the allure of the precuts with their variety. Your post certainly has me thinking more and more about precuts. Thanks for the opporunity at the chance to win the books. The sisters do an awesome job at quilting and enticing us all to join them. susandotdietrichatcoxdotnet

A year ago, the only things I purchased were pre-cuts, but now I am starting to tip the balance and buying a fair amount of yardage. It's about 50/50 now, because who can resist the wonderful balance that pre-cuts provide? Love them!gpc49[at]yahoo[dot]com

That looks like a fun book! I typically buy yardage or fat quarters because it seems like the smaller cuts never have enough of what I really want since I tend to make large quilts. Though I do have a few of the smaller precuts lurking in the totes. amityquilter2008 at gmail dot com

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